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transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude … ; employment ; wages ; foreign ownership ; Hungary ; Romania ; Russia ; Ukraine …
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This paper investigates the link between nationality of ownership and wage elasticities of labour demand at the level of the plant. In particular, we examine whether labour demand in multinationals becomes less elastic with respect to the wage if the plant has backward linkages with the local...
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Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to labour cost changes than in foreign multinationals. This difference in the wage elasticity of labour demand persists...
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affiliate wages to parent profits per worker is approximately 0.03, which can explain over 20 percent of the observed variation … in affiliate wages. These results reveal a previously ignored aspect of labor-market rent sharing. They also reveal an … conditions across national borders, and can thereby provide an implicit cross-country risk-sharing mechanism. -- wages ; profit …
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We compare wages in multinational enterprises (MNEs) versus domestic firms, the earnings of domestic firm workers with …-2011. We identify the returns to MNE experience from changes of ownership, wages paid by new firms of different ownership, and …
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We examine the period from 1991 to 2005 to document the effects of a changing Japanese labor market on trends in the cost of job change. During this period, job change penalties and the extent to which they were age-related grew. Evidence is also found of a diminishing specificity in human...
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.g., gender, ethnicity) has a much greater impact on immigrant wages in Japan than in the United States. Although the use of … achieved human capital do not significantly influence immigrant wages in Hamamatsu. Instead, ascribed human capital (e … social networks by immigrants to find jobs has a significant impact on wages in both countries, the effect is positive in …
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We explore whether a 1990 Japanese educational reform that eliminated gender-segregated and gender-stereotyped industrial arts and home economics classes in junior high schools led to behavioral changes among these students some two decades later when they were married and in their early...
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differences in job flows and reservation wages by occupation and employment type, which differ according to the risk of infection …
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Foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally …
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